Example sentences of "do [not/n't] know why [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never say you do not know why you picked certain subjects , or that other people decided for you , as this will show you in a negative light . |
| 2 | Jim Knox , an Oldham director , says that the club have fulfilled their financial obligations to Round and do not know why he is behaving in this way . |
| 3 | It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it . |
| 4 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |
| 5 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 6 | I do not know why I did it . |
| 7 | I do not know why I can not speak … and then a voice called her name . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not know why I even trust you , but I have no men trained to use their hearts in the way you are able to as a gift of Ptah . |
| 9 | ‘ I do not know why I should tell you , ’ he said . |
| 10 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 11 | I do not know why my hon. Friend is not here today , but I know that she is a very hard-working , committed hon. Member . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't know why yer botherin' , ’ grunted George . |
| 13 | I do n't know why we drink so much and come up smelling of roses . |
| 14 | I do n't know why we drink so much . |
| 15 | I do n't know why we drink . |
| 16 | I do n't know why we … the hell I do n't ! |
| 17 | I do n't know why we bother . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know why we keep coming here , ’ says an older clown on the bus shuttling us to the big top , ‘ all it does is rain on us and blow us about . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know why we did n't notice , Mil , ’ said Maud , rallying to her friend 's side . |
| 20 | But I do n't know why we were n't alerted sooner . ’ |
| 21 | But I do n't know why we were n't alerted sooner . ’ |
| 22 | And by the way , I do n't know why we 're sitting crouched down here because we could stand up by the spruce there : its shadow is darker than the sky , and we could be more ready for them . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know why we were making the damn thing — everybody was acting like it was a pain in the ass . |
| 24 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 25 | Do n't know why we have to have partners . |
| 26 | Do n't know why we never realised it before but Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the company 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock , making him worth about $60m . |
| 27 | Do n't know why we never realized it before but Sun chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the firm 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 29 | I do n't know why we still call it the God slot . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , anyway , ’ said my mother , ‘ I do n't know why we 're talking about it . |